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Please help me to select the correct option

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The lead-in from “Dancing With the Stars” will be high, and so too the expectations.
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The lead-in from “Dancing With the Stars” will be high, and also the expectations.
⃝ C
The lead-in from “Dancing With the Stars” will be high, and so too will be the expectations.

Few of you might think, what this question is all about, it doesn;t have all the options and where the original sentence?
Well, this is all I have, copied this from a test which has Idioms and Subject verb agreement questions.

I went for A, but looks like C is correct.

Can some one please explain why C not A?

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When you are watching parallelism mark the parallel flags. I believe the parallel flag here is "will be".

will be X and so too will be Y ----> Perfect parallelism. Hence C
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+1 to Mavrik's explanation! The same reason why I d choose C
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When you are watching parallelism mark the parallel flags. I believe the parallel flag here is "will be".

will be X and so too will be Y ----> Perfect parallelism. Hence C
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"will be X and so too will be Y" is an Idiom?
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C has proper prallelism construction here
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In addition to the parallelism that everyone here has hit on, keep in mind that that last clause needs to have its own subject and verb, which also requires C.

The sentence leading up to that last portion stands on its own:

The lead-in will be high.

To link something else to that standalone sentence, it needs to either link directly to the lead in:

The lead in will be high and mighty ("mighty" directly describes what the lead in will be, and you can't have a comma there or it would cut off the compound description)

OR

The lead in will be high, and so will the expectations (we're linking "expectations" to "high" by creating an independent clause...the lead in will be high and the expectations will be high is essentially what we're saying. Here, the comma sets off the two clauses to note that they're separate)


Because we're stuck with the comma, we know that we're introducing a new clause. And because "the expectations" doesn't describe "the lead in", we also know that a new clause is required. "Expectations" needs its own verb to survive as an independent clause, so we need the version with the verb "will".

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